This appears to be at about the area of NE 42nd Street looking across the West end of Government Island. From the looks of things a project to pave a asphalt East/West runway is underway with a road oilier at the left and a paving machine at the right of the image. The photo was likely exposed from a already extant control tower and looks from the South. The area has recently been developed from truck farms that prospered in the rich soils of the flood plane . Marine Drive is nowhere in evidence in this photo. When was Marine Drive completed this far East. Must have been near the time of this photo.
As the war progressed,from the yard of our home on NE 76th I can recall looking up in wonder as flights of 3 or 4 war planes passed over at low level and the roar of those big rotary engines would rattle the china cabinet in the dining room. Thrilling stuff for a little boy.